Ben Bradlee Jr. discusses his book, The Forgotten, at Politics and Prose on 10/6/18.

If many in the country still struggle to understand how Trump could win the presidency, Bradlee’s detailed report from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, provides some clear-sighted answers. A pivotal county in a swing state, Luzerne voted Democratic for decades. But as the region began to struggle economically, with jobs growing scarce and wages insufficient, people grew frustrated with the government’s failure to help. Bradlee, a veteran Boston Globe reporter and editor, whose tenure as deputy managing editor included overseeing the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, interviewed a wide range of Luzerne voters, whose stories add depth and complexity to the basic political statistics.

Bradlee is in conversation with Rick Klein, Political Director for ABC News and Bradlee's former colleague at The Boston Globe.

https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780316515733

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